Christian Fischer
Lawyers
Advises clients on the financing aspects of restructuring matters, including out-of-court and in-court restructurings and liability management transactions.
With a focus on restructuring finance, Christian represents funds, banks, financial institutions and other parties on a broad range of matters. These include liability management and special opportunity transactions, prepackaged, pre-arranged and free-fall bankruptcies, debtor-in-possession facilities and exit financings, out-of-court debt restructurings and debt document amendments.
Experience
Selected Representations
- Alkegen $2.125 billion financing and comprehensive liability management exercise
- Oregon Tool $156 million financing, maturity extension and refinancing exchange
- Enviva emerges from chapter 11
- McDermott International cross-border restructuring
- Lumio chapter 11 filing, DIP financing and stalking horse bid
- SEKO equitization and comprehensive restructuring
- Orbital Infrastructure DIP financing and section 363 purchase of Front Line Power
- ConvergeOne prepackaged chapter 11 filing and restructuring support agreement
- Revlon chapter 11 plan confirmed
- Pretium Packaging new-money financing and debt exchange
- Franchise Group $475 million acquisition financing
- Newark Energy Center acquisition by Hartree Partners
- Diebold Nixdorf emerges from chapter 11 and WHOA and obtains chapter 15 recognition
- Cineworld Group $855 million secured prepetition priming facility
- Incora comprehensive recapitalization transaction
- Avianca $1.05 billion DIP-to-exit financing
Education
Ph.D., Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Law and Finance
- summa cum laude
LL.M., New York University School of Law
- Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholar
Prior experience
- Counsel, Simpson Thacher, 2015-2017
- Associate, Simpson Thacher, 2011-2014
- Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, 2008-2011
- Associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 2005-2008
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York